December 2004

Visibility okay at the beginning of the month but later a bit stirred up as there were big waves but with sunny weather and occasionally some rain. The Tsunami was for us just an experience, fortunately we were back when the big flood waves came in and luckily it all happened at low tide! The Torrential rains afterwards caused more damage and prevented us from diving for a couple more days.

Shark Bank: WHALE SHARK on the 1st! Quite a bit of plankton in the water and still good visibility. We dove with the whale shark for more than 10 minutes and later went to dive at Shark Bank and had a fabulous dive there. There was lots to see, a big and a small marbled stingray, a fantasea stingray, White tip reef shark, two big bearded scorpion fish, eagle rays, the school of big barracuda's a mantis shrimp and of course the huge school of blue striped snappers.

Grand Barbe Rocks: The rocks at the corner are beautiful encrusted with tubastrea and soft corals. Lot's of lobsters in between the rocks. A nurse shark was resting on the sand and a white tip reef shark swam by. A number of big Humphead parrotfish as always was swimming in the surge. A porcupine stingray was laying on the sand eating its lunch. There was also a saddleback grouper, a great barracuda, and a big triton trumpet shell.

Napoleon Rock: We started the dive at the deep end and went towards the rock formation with the overhang. When we completed half of that place I spotted the whale shark. I was a bigger one than the one we saw on Shark Bank. She was less curious but nonetheless she stayed around a little while and then went away, but came back once again and stayed with us for some more time.